[The video swings unsteadily about the familiar backdrop of the baseball diamond for a moment. Accompanying it is a voice; low and even and very much not amused.]
Next time you design a simulation, do me a favor and make it less of a dump.
[It's a pretty convincing dump, to its credit. VR really has come a long way, apparently. Although ow, are
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[A pause.]
Frankly, compared to them, you're small fry... and the other you is right. You had nothing to do with what I was angry at you for.
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...huh.
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But I swear to god, if you disappear again...
[His voice turned vaguely threatening.]
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You'll what? I'll be gone, after all, won't I?
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If you leave again, I'll destroy you when you come back.
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Fair enough. Just make sure you leave him out of it.
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Sounds like I've missed a lot.
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You - the other you. You were here longer. You and Father were part of the reason I'm not still trying to kill you.
Things are different here... but don't be surprised if people assume I'm still trying to kill you. Officially, I am. You and Father are mine.
[Therefore I have a damn reason for going after them if they hurt you.]
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"Yours?" Thought you said you were giving up on that grudge of yours.
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[A pause.]
It wasn't the grudge that led me to try to kill you. Not really. There were... other factors. But it doesn't matter. For now, I'm not your enemy. Who knows what the future might bring? Perhaps some day I'll grow sick of playing the good little boy. Perhaps not.
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[And if they weren't enemies then what did that make them? Allies, maybe, though he still doesn't trust him very far. (It's true, old enemies can become allies all the time, and vice versa. But this is Liquid.) Certainly not brothers, not in any sense but the genetic.]
...Guess we'll find out.
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[You're mine. My family. And nobody has the right to kill you except me.]
I don't expect you to trust me. I don't care if you do or don't.
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[He sounded faintly amused.]
But rest assured, I have no plans to resort to murder or terrorism right now.
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